Comment Maybe a Tribute to M. Jackson (Score 1) 1
Maybe it is intentional as a way to pay tribute to the recently deceased M Jackson.
Comment Re:No doubt. (Score 1) 127
I never really enjoyed reading comic books.
Submission + - Giant Rift in Africa Will Create a New Ocean
Hugh Pickens writes: "The University of Rochester reports that a 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean in a million years or so connecting the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, an arm of the Arabian Sea between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Somalia in eastern Africa. Using newly gathered seismic data, researchers have reconstructed the event to show the rift tore open along its entire 35-mile length in just days. Dabbahu, a volcano at the northern end of the rift, erupted first, then magma pushed up through the middle of the rift area and began "unzipping" the rift in both directions. "We know that seafloor ridges are created by a similar intrusion of magma into a rift, but we never knew that a huge length of the ridge could break open at once like this," says Cindy Ebinger, professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester. The results show that highly active volcanic boundaries along the edges of tectonic ocean plates may suddenly break apart in large sections, instead of in bits, as the leading theory previously held and the sudden large-scale events pose a much more serious hazard to populations living near the rift than would several smaller events. "This work is a breakthrough in our understanding of continental rifting leading to the creation of new ocean basins," says Ken Macdonald, professor emeritus in the Department of Earth Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara"
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